This is actually horrifyong

[Anonymous No.11297963]

What is the right life though?

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>>11297963
The Epicurean way.

[Anonymous No.11298010]

>>11297963
The examined life

[Anonymous No.11298079]

>>11297963
hard to say, where exactly did he start fucking up? Also I think Stoner has a similar vibe going on but less judging

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>>11298010
>examines the imaginary

He was a good storyteller for his time.
Genius inventing Plato like that.

[Anonymous No.11298109]

>>11298079
Whenever he ignored that feeble voice telling him not to do things he didn't really want to do.

[Anonymous No.11298124]

>>11297963
Recently read this and thought it was brutal myself. What I took away from the right life aspect was that he didn't follow his instinctual sense of right, allowed the light of his early life to slip away into a darkening vanity while ignoring his real sense of virtue. Early on it's described that he knew some things people in his society were doing was wrong but continued anyway. It wasn't until death he realized how shallow and distracting it all was. So the 'right life' is a life of self-integrity and fulfilling the deeper spiritual needs.

[Anonymous No.11298660]

>>11298079
I can't recall, but I remember him putting in a ton of effort into his material goods and lying to himself in believing that his wealth and goods and collections made things okay with his wife when they really weren't

[Anonymous No.11298752]

>>11297963
I took it similarly to >>11298010
>>11298109 and >>11298124. He lost himself in the transitory pleasures of gratified vanity, ignoring pleas and voices from the depths within. He rose in standing, built a good house, had the right wares, but lived isolated from himself, and in the face of death, recognized the error of his way, and the reader is left in horror at the all to irreversable nature of his situation, as a warning not to do the same. The “right way of living” is going to come through examining life, directing your energies towards knowing your inner nature and forming a life according with that, even if that involves clashing with the outside world (he sacrificed much of himself in gaining something as passing as social standing). Also there is no way, just as no one experiences the same puzzle of being. So gg roastie no ree

[Anonymous No.11299263]

>>11297963
Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of all philosophy.